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Anyone calling this site legal is using the evidence gleaned from various Russian lawsuits that succeeded in throwing out the music giants who challenged them. Anyone calling the site illegal have taken their data from those who consider the rather sketchy loopholes in international intellectual property laws broken. For what it's worth here is the low down from the somewhat quick research I did over the last couple of years on this topic. Basically the RIAA (http://www.riaa.com) is a large American conglomerate organisation that stands to gain from copyrighted material sold and distributed through their somewhat large and powerful worldwide media organisations. Their job is to protect poor artists who are not getting their slice of payment when people buy their music through sites that don't (necessarily) give the right amount of waddage to those that expect. The RIAA represent Sony music, Warner, BMG etc. iTunes do the same job as the Ruskies but they pay their dues to the RIAA and others - so it's all happy and legal. But AllofMP3.com and MP3Fiesta "kind of" pay something to someone - but they don't really publish where it ends up - and the RIAA hate this a lot. These Russians might well be pirate underdogs profiteering from other's hard work, but, by contrast the RIAA are a bunch of mega rich Yank suits who want to kill the people who take away the funds for their 4x4s etc. When the RIAA tried to sue various Russian bodies for maximising on the somewhat non-existant copyright law over there, they failed. IE because the RIAA lost their case, you could argue that the Russians are legally selling this music. The illegal part is that those who created the music sold are not necessarily getting theirs. You have to ask yourself whether you care about funding what I would now consider a somewhat outdated bunch of media giants or whether you would like to back the little guy. The obvious advantage is that you get to "own" a wad load of cheap music while you do. The bit that gets my goat is that, because these large bloated American corporations hate a change of digital culture (especially when it's not in their favour), they resort to dirty tricks. In this case they call up their friends in the large banks like Mastercard and Visa and get them to choke the Russians by refusing them an online payment system. I consider that this is an infringement in itself because it appears that those who have the media power can stop someone trading by getting someone else (in this case a clutch of world banking corporations) to boycott them by proxy. You know, if I considered that someone was doing something slightly shady, I can imagine the kind of reaction I would get if I asked the banks to stop serving them. Remember people, there are probably more stories against the Russian's policies and systems than I mention here - but, as far as I can find online, these Russian music sites have not yet lost a case in the world courts. There is no intellectual copyright to speak of in Russia, and they can legally sell internationally. I'm no lawyer but I can see quite clearly that this is simply exploiting a loophole - but, if it re-dresses the balance and brings art back to music rather than just income streams to rich people, then I'm all for it.

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